The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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Government running scared despite presidential victory

The government was running scared despite its victory in the presidential elections of March and was using all of the means at its disposal to head-off and disrupt any kind of gathering lest it erupt into a demonstration or riot that might spark a larger uprising.

The major crackdown was in Manicaland home of Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Party spokesman Learnmore Jongwe said police had arrested 100 MDC members in Chibunji after MDC supporters allegedly burned down a bottle store belonging to Bernard Makuwe.

Makuwe, the ZANU-PF chairman for Buhera, was named as a defendant in the petrol-bomb murder of Tsvangirai’s driver and another MDC member in April 2000, but had so far refused without consequences to appear in court.

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.